NWA Tri-State Tag Team Championship explained

Championshipname:NWA Tri-State Tag Team Championship
Promotion:NWA Tri-State
Created:1962
Mostreigns:The Hollywood Blondes (Jerry Brown and Buddy Roberts) and The Medics (Billy Garrett and Jim Starr) (4 reigns)
Firstchamp:Jan Madrid and Louie Tillet
Pastnames:
  • NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Tri-State version)
Titleretired:1982

The NWA Tri-State Tag Team Championship[1] was a tag team title created in 1962, and contested in the National Wrestling Alliance's Tri-State territory, which was promoted by Leroy McGuirk (Arkansas and Oklahoma) and Jack Curtis and Aurelian "Grizzly" Smith (Louisiana). For most of its existence, the title was the Tri-State version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship.[2]

This group of promoters existed until Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling bought out the majority of the Tri-State territory, and also Gil Culkin and George Gulkin's Mississippi territory, in August 1979.[1] After Watts took over, McGuirk took the title to Oklahoma, the only part of the Tri-State territory not owned by Watts. The U.S. Tag Team Championship's name was then changed to the Tri-State Tag Title in 1980.[3]

The title lasted until Tri-State closed in 1982, when Mid-South Wrestling took over Oklahoma from McGuirk.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pro-Wrestling Title Histories: N.W.A. Tri-State . May 9, 2008 . Puroresu Dojo.
  2. Web site: N.W.A. United States Tag Team Title (Tri-State) . May 9, 2008 . Puroresu Dojo.
  3. Web site: N.W.A. Tri-State Tag Team Title . May 9, 2008 . Puroresu Dojo.